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Train travel is making a comeback
Rochester Post-Bulletin (Minn) ^ | Thursday, July 22, 2010 | Greg Sellnow

Posted on 07/22/2010 6:10:01 AM PDT by Willie Green

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To: Willie Green; theymakemesick; Sherman Logan; KevinDavis; narses; darkwing104
Click here, NOOBIE.

Nooooo - thank you, Willie.

Considering your manical, antisocial reactions when someone disagrees with your bizarre rail-road manifestos, I think I'll decline following your link to "tinyurl.com/3adypff". For all I know, your link might lead to something racist or obscene. Perhaps it might put me at risk for malicious data. The risk strikes me as a very bad idea; I value my computer and my sanity far too much to take the risk. Besides, I never trust race-baiters.

You could post whatever is at the link and share it with the rest of the class. That is, of course, if it doesn't violate FRs posting rules.

How about everyone else? Anybody got a clue as to what a "VDARE" is?

Maybe Willie is a Trekkie and meant to say "VGER!"

How about it Willie, are you a Star Trek fan? What's your opinion; which series is the definitive Star Trek? I bet you're old school; you're a fan of "The Original Series!" Aren't you, Willie?

I'm looking forward to seeing you post whatever lurks at that link, Willie. Are ya gonna post it here? C'mon, Willie; we're all waiting!

61 posted on 07/24/2010 8:38:59 AM PDT by Grizzled Bear (Does not play well with others)
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To: Grizzled Bear
Since you're too lazy to google it yourself, here's a link that doesn't use tinyurl to help you out.
62 posted on 07/24/2010 8:54:06 AM PDT by Willie Green (Save Money: Build High-Speed Rail & Maglev and help permanently ground Air Force One!!!)
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To: Willie Green; theymakemesick; Sherman Logan; KevinDavis; narses; darkwing104
I ran a search on “VDARE.” That's where I found “Vocational Diagnosis and Assessment of Residual Employability.” There were also a few websites that offered translations to acronyms.

I used Ask.com rather than Google. Regardless, there's nothing in my posting history relating to anything called “VDARE.” Perhaps you've confused me with one of the many voices in your head.

Does this "VDARE" have something to do with “Venereal Disease Awareness, Reduction and Education?” Is that the problem, Willie? Have you gone insane due to untreated Syphilis? That would really explain a lot!

Why don't you simply say what “VDARE is? What's the matter Willie? Are ya scared?

63 posted on 07/24/2010 9:22:01 AM PDT by Grizzled Bear (Does not play well with others)
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To: svcw

“It is relaxing and comfortable.”

Really???

http://realtravel.com/e-248947-new_orleans_entry-ridin_on_the_city_of_new_orleans_to_seattle


64 posted on 07/24/2010 9:57:07 AM PDT by Wonder Warthog
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To: Grizzled Bear
Why don't you simply say what “VDARE is?
It's a racist website that disguises the bigotry of its authors with pseudo-intellectual sophistry mixed in with syndicated articles from more legitimate national columnists.

You should be careful to not adopt their "anti-urbanite" bigotry.

65 posted on 07/24/2010 10:00:55 AM PDT by Willie Green (Save Money: Build High-Speed Rail & Maglev and help permanently ground Air Force One!!!)
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To: Willie Green; theymakemesick; Sherman Logan; KevinDavis; narses; darkwing104
Willie, are you ever going to explain your accusation?

If you think that JimRob is going to allow an obsessive/compulsive stalker like you to start posting articles from VDARE, you are sadly mistaken.

You've accused me of posting articles from something called "VDARE." You've insinuated that Mr Jim Robinson dislikes articles from this source, but you've never explained what a "VDARE" is.

It seems reasonable for me to ask you to explain your accusations. How can I check my posting history for "VDARE" if I don't know what a "VDARE" is! It must be something bad if Mr Robinson doesn't want its content posted on his website! I would have pinged Mr Robinson; however, I'm sure he has more important things on his plate.

Come on, Willie! I've asked for clarification but all you've given me are dubious hot links to questionable web sites. Who wants to click on a link in good faith and find themselves viewing pictures of strange, thong wearing men committing unnatural acts with a steam locomotive? I certainly don't!

***Please Note - I haven't actually clicked on the link so I don't know if Willie posts links to homoerotic train porn. Based on his posting history, it's as good as guess as any!***

Please Wille, for the edification of all; explain, in your own words, what is a "VDARE?"

66 posted on 07/24/2010 10:20:17 AM PDT by Grizzled Bear (Does not play well with others)
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To: Willie Green; theymakemesick; Sherman Logan; KevinDavis; narses; darkwing104
It's a racist website that disguises the bigotry of its authors with pseudo-intellectual sophistry mixed in with syndicated articles from more legitimate national columnists.

Gee Willie, I've never posted anything from there! That's what you accused me of, right?

Why do you frequent such places? Don't you know bigotry is a sign of immaturity and ignorance? Won't you turn away from your racism, Willie?

67 posted on 07/24/2010 10:23:08 AM PDT by Grizzled Bear (Does not play well with others)
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To: Grizzled Bear
Gee Willie, I've never posted anything from there! That's what you accused me of, right?

No, I've accused you of being an obsessive/compulsive stalker.
OTOH, to the extent that you won't recognize how racist bigotry can hide behind "code words" like "urbanite" or "union", yes, you do provide a smokescreen for VDARE bigotry.

68 posted on 07/24/2010 10:40:23 AM PDT by Willie Green (Save Money: Build High-Speed Rail & Maglev and help permanently ground Air Force One!!!)
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To: Willie Green
After reading it, wanted to ask WG what the effect of inflation and wages was on the cost of a gallon of gasoline in the years since it was $.32/gal. You saved me the trouble, again, thanks.

You have that backwards. Rising fuel costs have adversely affected the cost of most everything else in our society. When gasoline cost 32¢ per gallon, we were living in an era when a single wage earner could raise a family of four in the suburbs, and still set aside enough savings for retirement and send the kids off to college. Nowadays, it takes a multi-family income to achieve the same standard of living, and ironically, multi-vehicle families who consume more gasoline than the average family of the '60s.

A strawman, but here goes. We can still have single earner families today but in the era you're referring to, everyone didn't have to have a 4000 sq/ft McMansion, they didn't have $600 electric bills because there wasn't nearly the amount of air conditioning then compared to now, they didn't have to have two cars and associated expenses because women hadn't been told they weren't living fulfilling lives by working in the home (please don't spin my words and tell me that I'm suggesting that there weren't two wage earner families, that's not what I'm saying). We're using more gasoline now because we have two (or more) car families so both wage earners can can pay for all this stuff. In the sixties one car / wage earner families were not uncommon and if people elected to live at those standards today, single earner families wouldn't be uncommon today.

As someone upthread said, paraphrasing, rail is something urbanites want everyone else to pay for.

Are you suggesting that urbanites don't pay taxes like the rest of us???

Not in the least. I'm suggesting exactly what "someone upthread said" and I'll say it again. Read it slowly for full comprehension: rail is something urbanites want everyone else to pay for. I will give a little here and say rail is something urbanites want everyone else to help pay for so you won't be able to nit pick that little distinction.

Millions of hardworking, taxpaying Americans from all walks of life use passenger rail systems to commute back-and-forth to work everyday. I sincerely hope that you're not among the shameful bigots who utilize "urbanite" and other "code words" to conjure up negative stereotypes of inner city residents.

No, WIllie, it was a simple statement meant to be taken at face value. I don't have to spin words or use the bullying tactics of your last sentence (above). The rail systems being built and that have built in the recent past ARE in urban areas and the people promoting them are forcing the rest of us that don't live near them or have reason to use them to pay for them. Face value, nothing more. Oh, I'm not certain, but I think you mean "shameless" bigot. I wouldn't want to put words in your mouth.

69 posted on 07/24/2010 10:41:56 AM PDT by theymakemesick (Full of hatred for those that disagree, liberal democrats are the most intolerant bigots on Earth)
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To: Willie Green; theymakemesick; Sherman Logan; KevinDavis; narses; darkwing104
No, I've accused you of being an obsessive/compulsive stalker.

Willie, you post your peculiar little train articles on this Website. The owner of this website allows members of the general public (riff raff like me) to sign up and comment on articles posted on this website. I see your posts and respond. Just exactly how is that stalking you?

You posted, concerning "VDARE" - It's a racist website that disguises the bigotry of its authors with pseudo-intellectual sophistry mixed in with syndicated articles from more legitimate national columnists.

Has anyone other than you mentioned race? Willie, you're the one who keeps referencing a website that you admit is a racist website. Until today, I never heard of this website. Do you think Mr Robinson wants links to racist websites on Free Republic?

Why are you trying to generate traffic to that racist website? Is that your website? What are you, some kind of "Blog Pimp?"

What the bajeebez is wrong with you?

Sir, I suggest you take your bigotry and your homoerotic train porn over to KOS or DU where people are into that freakishness!

70 posted on 07/24/2010 11:03:24 AM PDT by Grizzled Bear (Does not play well with others)
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To: theymakemesick
Oh, I'm not certain, but I think you mean "shameless" bigot. I wouldn't want to put words in your mouth.

Willie's the one posting links to websites that are, in his own words, racist. I think he's projecting his own racism on others. That's a common practice among self loathing homosexuals.

71 posted on 07/24/2010 11:11:26 AM PDT by Grizzled Bear (Does not play well with others)
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GB, Willie’s trying to make you make FreeRebublic look racist by your calling people that post on “VDARE” racists and such. The link goes to a google search for VDARE and freerepublic, apparently VDARE was a member that was banned by FR and since you don’t remember that from 2006, you’re a “noobie”. FWIW, I don’t remember him/her either.


72 posted on 07/24/2010 11:13:46 AM PDT by theymakemesick (Full of hatred for those that disagree, liberal democrats are the most intolerant bigots on Earth)
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Willie’s trying to make you make FreeRebublic look racist by your calling people that post on “VDARE” racists and such. The link goes to a google search for VDARE and freerepublic...

Are you sure? I thought Willie was representing the GLBT community through "Venereal Disease Awareness, Reduction and Education (VDARE)."

Why else would Willie post links to homoerotic images of gay men in thongs committing unnatural acts with steam locomotives?

73 posted on 07/24/2010 11:35:19 AM PDT by Grizzled Bear (Does not play well with others)
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To: Wonder Warthog
Yep. I have traveled the whole of the west coast gorgeous.
I have gone through the Rockie Mountains where cars can not go gorgeous.
Now have not gone on any trip east of the Mississippi so can not say about those. Every train I have ever had had fantastic views.
To each his own I guess.
74 posted on 07/24/2010 2:19:15 PM PDT by svcw (Real faith is always increased by opposition, false confidence is damaged & discouraged by it)
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To: svcw; Wonder Warthog
Every train I have ever had had fantastic views.

Good for you! I'd like to take a ride through Glacier park.

To each his own I guess.

Sounds great, just don't take my tax dollars to subsidize your train ride.

Pay your own way! Ain't that a grand concept?

75 posted on 07/24/2010 2:59:54 PM PDT by Grizzled Bear (Does not play well with others)
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To: Grizzled Bear

Oh, I agree with that.


76 posted on 07/24/2010 3:03:01 PM PDT by svcw (Real faith is always increased by opposition, false confidence is damaged & discouraged by it)
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To: svcw; Willie Green
Oh, I agree with that.

Good for you! Willie, are you taking notes?

77 posted on 07/24/2010 3:09:27 PM PDT by Grizzled Bear (Does not play well with others)
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To: ErnBatavia
The first car I ever bought myself. It was that weird Army green. $350 what a deal. I swear I could have moved three rooms of furniture in that car.
78 posted on 07/24/2010 3:21:26 PM PDT by svcw (Real faith is always increased by opposition, false confidence is damaged & discouraged by it)
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To: Saundra Duffy

You are so correct Sandy. That is a really nice trip.
Have you traveled on the coast? Beautiful.


79 posted on 07/24/2010 3:23:19 PM PDT by svcw (Real faith is always increased by opposition, false confidence is damaged & discouraged by it)
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